💬 Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames."
— Señora Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
"Proportion, divine proportion, mistress of priests, was discovered, of necessity, by the thin, skin-clad black-hatted man, the doctor."
— Señora Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
"She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on."
— Señora Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
"Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages."
— Señora Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
"It is not the man who is the most brilliant who is the most successful, but the man who is the most consistent."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"I shall be doing one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, loving you, and longing for you, and keeping back tears for you, till sight fails and speech fails me."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"Vanity, indeed, is the beginning and the end of all our actions."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"He is a man who will never be in any man's way, and who will never be a burden to any woman."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"When a woman once accepts the idea of marriage, she becomes a new creature, and her old life is as a forgotten dream."
— Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy
"The past isn't a place you visit; it's a place you live in, even when you try to evict yourself."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"Everyone wears a mask, but some people’s masks are crafted from the very things they are trying to hide."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"Truth is a jagged thing. It cuts you if you hold it too tight, but it bleeds you dry if you let it go."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"Memory is a fickle witness. It doesn't tell us what happened; it tells us how we survived what happened."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"In the eyes of the public, the survivor is a monument. In the eyes of the person, they are just a ruin trying to rebuild."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"Justice is rarely about closure. It is simply the end of a long, exhausting game of cat and mouse."
— Those Empty Eyesby Charlie Donlea
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, so to speak, that the doors of the world are wide open."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"The people who run the world are the people who can hold the most information in their heads, and the people who can't are just along for the ride."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"I am Hiro Protagonist, and I am the last of the freelance hackers and the greatest fighter in the Metaverse."
— Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson